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Party's over, bedbugs. Today Mayor Bloomberg (heard of him? We humans call him the MAD DOG) has just created a Bedbug Advisory Board to take the fight to you. A veritable Justice League is forming, comprised of the best and brightest in pest management, entomology, and... Consumer Affairs. And come nine months from now, these geniuses are going to report their findings to the mayor, and who knows what they'll recommend? Everything's on the table—even DDT. Well, probably not, but if you're a bedbug who's smart enough to be reading this on the internet, there's nothing we can do to stop you at this point anyway. (Not really a joke, NYC bedbugs have been mutating into unstoppable super insects.) The creation of the Advisory Board, which mirrors steps taken by other bedbug-infested cities, came out of a City Council hearing on the blood sucking fiends last month. And with an increasing number of New Yorkers plagued by the resilient pests, we're not waiting around for the government to take action: we're releasing the hounds.
Bedbugs Can Suck It: Advisory Board Will Crush Parasites
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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so the guy with the red gloves represents Bloomy and the white shirt is the bed bug? http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/196069811_a253b2a9aa.jpg?v=0
Bed bugs aren't the problem.
Dirty people are.
Wash your ass.
Wash your clothes.
Wash your bedsheets.
This advice is not only a preventative measure, it's also treatment in case you've got em'!
"Bed bugs aren't the problem.
Dirty people are"
Bed bugs aren't cockroaches or flies. The feed on human blood, not trash and garbage. They're attracted to where people are, regardless of sanitary conditions. Meticulous cleaning can be helpful primarily in finding exactly where they might be hiding in a home, but won't get rid of them or reduce the probability of getting them.
I agree with what you've written. However, comma, sanitary conditions DO matter when it comes to transporting bed bugs to public places, thus spreading the problem.
If people learned how to isolate the problem and be responsible there would be less occurrences.. (money here is not an issue. Common sense and a few good websites will do the trick)
And for fcksake! A Bed Bug Advisory Board?? How much money is that going to cost us?!
I heart John Del Signore posts...
"Loose the aardvarks!"
I'm not a unsanitary person. Just one that was unfortunate enough to move into an apartment that had bedbugs. It's was truly awful, and a situation that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. An advisory board is definitely in order. Now quit throwing stones.
Bedbugs will even become resistant to DDT. The only thing that kills bedbugs dead is diatomaceous earth. Even ther head entomologist from the Museum of Natural Science says so. The city needs to do the following:
1) Ban the sale of reconditioned and refurbished mattresses.
2) Demand that mattress delivery trucks do not pick up used mattresses as a value-add to their customers and/or do not put them in the same delivery trucks as their new mattresses.
3) Require that all discarded mattresses be wrapped in plastic with duct tape.
4) Start a public service campaign about bed bug transmission: used clothers, used books, used furniture, used mattresses, public places such as hotels, hospitals, theater seats, nursing homes, etc. Also furnish the public with information on how to kill bed bugs (diatomaceious earth).
5) Create a separate inspection department other than the HPD. The HPD focuses on heat and hot water complaints from October through April, relegating bed bug complaints to the back burner until May-August. The HPD does not give tenants any advance notice of when they will arrive to conduct an inspection. They will take 4-6 weeks to show up, and then show up when most people are at work and have not made arrangements for the inspectors to gain entry to the apartment. There neads to be a 1-2 day lead call about an upcoming inspection.
6) Lower the criteria in the inspection process for determining whether or not there is a bed bug infestation. Currently, only live bed bugs and/or significant bedbug feces are used for a finding of infestation. Other criteria should include whether or not other infestations in the same building are already on file, dead bed bugs collected by tenants, bed bug bites on tenants, blood stains on mattresses, etc.
7) DO NOT offer any tax incentives to landlords or businesses for bed bug extermination. Professional extermination involves the use of chemicals, to which the bedbugs will eventually become resistant, only perpetuating and spreading the problem.
8) Educate hotels about bedbug transmission via luggage. Offer tax incentives for hotels to purchase freezing devices to "rapid freeze" incoming and outgoing luggage for guests. Require that "rapid freezing" be a mkandatory condition of any hotel stay by intended guests.
9) Create an online, publicly-available bedbug mapping program, where potential tenants and hotel guests can check in advance to see if there has been a recent bedbug infestation in their intented apartment or hotel, respectively.
Some one had done their homework. I vote waxy as chief advisor for the advisory board!!!
I'll second that.
I thought Mad Dog was Christine Quinn's nickname, not Bloomberg?
If there ever is such a position created for an NYC tenant who has been adversely affected by begbugs, I would gladly accept such a nomination.